TEHRAN, Feb. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Iranian Majlis (parliament) Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel here Saturday vowed that Iran would not give in under pressure over its nuclear program, the official IRNA news agency reported.

   Adel was also quoted as saying that "the Iranian nation will not surrender to pressures imposed on the country by certain powers on its nuclear programs."

   He complained that Iran's progress in nuclear technology "has been turned into a pretext for certain powers to impose pressures on the Iranian nation".

   The hardline speaker reiterated that the Iranian government was obliged to implement a law passed late last year to cease voluntary cooperative measures on the nuclear issue in case the file was referred to the UN Security Council.

   "The Majlis believes the law mandating implementation of the country's nuclear programs should be enforced. We will review it after the IAEA decision. But we should (first) see what decisions the agency will take," he said.

   The speaker's comments came shortly before the emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency  (IAEA) board of governors in Vienna adopted a resolution to report Iran's nuclear issue to the UN Security Council over concerns that Tehran is developing nuclear weapons.

   Javad Vaeidi, deputy secretary of Supreme National Security Council of Iran, warned in Vienna soon after the IAEA's vote that Tehran would resume "full-scale" of uranium enrichment.

   Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Friday also warned that referring Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council would be a "big mistake".

   The Iranian Majlis in December 2005 ratified a law demanding the government to cease all voluntary measures on the nuclear program if hauled to the UN, including the implementation of the addition protocol of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and voluntary suspension of some nuclear work.

   On Jan. 10, Tehran resumed nuclear research work regardless of the warnings of the European Union (EU) and virtually rejected a Russia proposal to transfer uranium enrichment work to Russia, which prompted the EU to call for the IAEA emergency meeting.

   The United States has accused Iran of secretly developing nuclear weapons and the EU has asserted that Iran's full mastery of nuclear fuel cycle technology would possibly lead to military usage. Enditem